The cold morning air bit at Maya's exposed skin as she stared at the vacant spot. Her boots, ill-suited for walking, crunched on the gravel. She’d always relied on the familiar rhythm of her daily commute. Now, a wave of nausea washed over her. Her entire routine, built like a house of cards, teetered precariously. She clutched her worn purse, the strap digging into her shoulder. Getting anywhere felt impossible. Calling her sister, and hearing the inevitable sigh, became a necessity.

Emotion: dependent

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.05 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.69

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion dependent. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 dependent stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the dependent emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the dependent vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.489
缺乏0.395
even0.310
either0.301
'0.297
Suppressed:
笑道-0.309
不久-0.293
一脸-0.263
затем-0.263
庆祝-0.258